Thy flocks are scattered o'er the barren waste,
Yet do they not forget thy sheltering fold;
Unto thy garments' fringe they cling, and haste
The
branches
of thy palms to seize and hold.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v12 - Gre to Hen |
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The
punishment
was not of the
severest kind.
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Ovid - 1865 - Ovid by Alfred Church |
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This I forgot last night:
you must not be blamed,
it is not your fault;
as a child, a flower--any flower
tore my breast--
meadow-chicory, a common grass-tip,
a leaf shadow, a flower tint
unexpected
on a winter-branch.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Lucian, expanding the idea to take in all his
criticisms
of life, coun ters, in good French: " Cela" seroit bien joli.
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Allinson - Lucian, Satirist and Artist |
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Everywhere
suspicion was rife, and terror invaded
even the privacy of the home.
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Tacitus |
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People must expect and as- sume that
managers
will look out for interests other than their own.
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txt[3/29/23, 1:19:16 AM]
Uniformity, 309, 314
Universal polemics, 373-75 Universities, 117, 120
Untimely Observations, ix Urfragen, 460
Urinating, 103-7, 104
van der Vring, Georg, 414, 416
van Eestern, C, 435
Vanity, 16
Verratene Revolution 1918/1919, Die, 429
Verschwbrer, 424-29 passim
Virgin
Disciplines
the Christ Child, The, 279 Voltaire, Francois-Marie Arouet de, xiv
Wahrhaftigkeit, 461
Walpurgis Night on Henkel's Field, 505 Walser, Martin, 320-21
War: and moral consciousness, 301; and muti-
lation, 443-46, 444; and pre-Fascist litera- ture, 121; and psychic mechanisms, 120, 121; senselessness of, 415-16; and sur- vival, 128-29, 323, 419, 420, 434, 443; ultimate, 130
War volunteers, 121
Watt, James, 11
Weaponry, 128, 130, 349-55, 353, 435 Weber, Max, 425
Weill, Kurt, 306
Weimar Republic, xxii-xxiii, 10, 124,
384-86, 387-90, 414-15, 422, 424-25; and Anyone, 199; and catastrophile com- plex, 122; and cynicism, xxiii, 7-8, 10; and disillusionment, 8, 410, 416; double decisions of, 521-28; elements of, 425, 435; as historical mirror, 89; and Hitler's rise, 521; as miscarried enlightenment, 10; and Nietzsche's philosophy, 10; social character of, 500-501
Wilde, Oscar, xxxii, 307
Wilhelminianism, 411-12, 425 Wintermdrchen, 33
Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 398
World War I, 121, 121, 122, 128, 202, 386,
392, 410, 419, 434, 461 World War II, 123, 128, 202 Wulffen, Erich, 485-86 Wunde Heine, Die, xxxvi
Yesbody, xix, 73
You Will Not Find Him, 166
Zauberberg, Der, 529 Zeitgeist, 139
Zen masters, 130, 157 Zichy, Michael von, 344 Zille, Heinrich, 156, 219 Zola, Emile, xiv
Zur geistigen Situation der Zeit (Man in the modern age), 417
558 D INDEX
Peter Sloterdijk holds a doctorate in German literature from the University of Hamburg with a concentration in the autobiographical literature of the Weimar Republic.
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Sloterdijk -Critique of Cynical Reason |
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"The best work on Friedrich
Nietzsche
in our tongue.
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Nietzsche - v09 - The Dawn of Day |
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Thus the War was
necessary
to make his calling pay
and the smoke of the sacrifice offered to Peace must therefore be
unpleasant to him.
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Aristophanes |
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That Battus , when he left the sacred isle , (The colonist of Libya's
fruitful
land ,)
Should rear th ' equestrian city ' s towering pile , Secure upon its chalky rock to stand .
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Pindar |
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is infused with a
powerful
hatred of hierarchy and special privi- leges and with a passionate resentment of caste distinc- tions and inherited cultural superiority.
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Hegel - Zizek - With Hegel Beyond He |
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If he had left Ireland before the
fifth of November 1688, he must
surrender
himself by the first of
October.
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Macaulay |
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Then we walked home with some, or rather many, stoppages to
rest, and with our hearts full of a
constant
dread of wild bulls.
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Dracula by Bram Stoker |
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Lange Zeit
genoßest
du
deinen Wunsch durch nichts bemüht.
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Lament for a Man Dear to Her |
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L3: [The
summarizing
stanza:]
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Aryadeva - Four Hundred Verses |
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Unlike those fearful Poets, whose cold Rhyme
In all their
Raptures
keep exactest time,
That sing th' Illustrious Hero's mighty praise
(Lean Writers!
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Boileau - Art of Poetry |
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AndtodeterminetheTimemorenicely,it may befix'dtheverynext Year, during
theTruce
between the Athenians and Lacedemonians.
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Plato - 1701 - Works - a |
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What
an
increase
of production!
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Macaulay |
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" On comparison of
the ideas of the author of a method of
Indivisibility
with that of the
" Pensieri, " the same argument occurs as to the effect of mirrors whose
concavity is generated by a parabolical line; there is also similarity between
the " Pensieri " and the Lunar Astronomy of Kepler, as also Gregory in his
Comparative Astronomy.
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Sarpi - 1868 - Life of Fra Paolo Sarpi |
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Non illi quisquam bello se
conferet
heros,
Cum Phrygii Teucro manabunt sanguine rivi; 345.
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Catullus - Hubbard - Poems |
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Many and many a day he had been failing, And I knew the end must come at last—
The poor
fellow—I
had loved him dearly, It was hard for me to see him go.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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The festival was to last seven
days, and the King defrayed the
expenses
of every one of his
guests.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v19 - Oli to Phi |
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Young
soldiers
of the noble Latin blood,
How many are ye--Boys?
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Hugo - Poems |
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mer--a
lifelong
friend and prote?
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Trakl - Bringing Blood to Trakl’s Ghost |
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An arch under which we slide
Divides our lives for us:
After we have passed it
We know we have left
something
behind
We shall not see again.
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Imagists |
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"
Flossie was
enjoying
her first visit to the
seaside, when one morning her mother told
her she would have to go into the town instead
of to the shore.
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Childrens - Children's Sayings |
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Moreover, if all nations were
agree about certain
religious
matters, for instal
the existence of a God (which, it may be remarke
is not the case with regard to this point), th
would only be an argument against those affirme
matters, for instance the existence of a God; th
consensus gentium and hominum in general can
only take place in case of a huge folly.
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Nietzsche - v06 - Human All-Too-Human - a |
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How, in this hypothesis, would he not
overstep
his resolution?
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Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-1-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991 |
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As the price of raw
produce continues to rise, these inferior machines are successively
called into action; and as the price of raw produce continues to fall,
they are
successively
thrown out of action.
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Ricardo - On The Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation |
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They were the
earliest
navigators,
and their skill in ship-building may be inferred from I Kings, v.
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Scriptori Erotici Graeci |
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T o compel an enemy's retreat, though, by some threat of engagement, I have to be
committed
to move.
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Schelling - The Art of Commitment |
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But,
considering
their constant association, I say that they are one in nature.
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AbhidharmakosabhasyamVol-4VasubandhuPoussinPruden1991 |
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To whom thus Eve with sad
demeanour
meek.
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Milton |
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343
Selbstkolonialisierung
in der breiten Gegenwart.
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Gumbrecht - Publications.1447-2006 |
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Matthew has Mary and Joseph in Bethlehem all along, moving to
Nazareth
only long after the birth of Jesus, on their return from Egypt where they fled from King Herod and the massacre of the innocents.
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Richard-Dawkins-God-Delusion |
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This is the man whom not even Africa,
lashed by the
Mauritanian
ocean, and stretching even to the steaming
Nile, and then again to the races of the Æthiopes and their tall[613]
elephants, can contain!
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Satires |
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Throughout
Holy Week the theatres had been closed; and not having been
able to pursue his
business
of selling programmes, he had not
a cuarto in his pocket.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v25 - Tas to Tur |
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XCII
"That night fatal to me and Antioch town,
Then made a prey to her
commanding
foe,
My loss was greater than was seen or known,
There ended not, but thence began my woe:
Light was the loss of friends, of realm or crown;
But with my state I lost myself also,
Ne'er to be found again, for then I lost
My wit, my sense, my heart, my soul almost.
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Tasso - Jerusalem Delivered |
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As far as the thighs he was of human shape and of such
prodigious
bulk that he out-topped all the mountains, and his head often brushed the stars.
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Apollodorus - The Library |
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America today is largely, shall we say,
promissory
notes that simply can NOT be honored.
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Ezra-Pound-Speaking |
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And with all their craft and cunning,
All their skill in wiles of warfare,
They perceived no danger near them,
Till their claws became entangled,
Till they found
themselves
imprisoned
In the snares of Hiawatha.
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Longfellow |
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Then, sore afraid, their admiral they sought,
To whom the keys of
Sarraguce
they brought.
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Chanson de Roland |
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For instance, that marriage is not a private affair but a public institution; that it has the sublime mission of evolving feelings of responsibility and empathy, and the task (which hardens a people) of
exercising
mankind in the bearing of difficult burdens; perhaps indeed, although it could only be adduced with the greatest tact, that precisely by lasting over a fairly long period of time, mar- riage constituted the best protection against the excesses of desire.
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Musil - Man Without Qualities - v2 |
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LXIX
But Altamore, this while that strove and sought
From
shameful
flight his Persian host to stay,
That was discomfit and destroyed to nought,
Whilst he alone maintained the fight and fray,
Seeing distressed the goddess of his thought,
To aid her ran, nay flew, and laid away
All care both of his honor and his host:
If she were safe, let all the world be lost.
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Tasso - Jerusalem Delivered |
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King Hsien of Ho-kien, and his
recovery
of the Kâu Lî.
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Confucius - Book of Rites |
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[14] G They shared the spoils with the soldiers, in order to give them a taste of the profits of war and make them more
disposed
to fight for freedom .
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Diodorus Siculus - Historical Library |
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Our wood-cutters raised a warlike whoop; the report of a
rifle just at my back
deafened
me.
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Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad |
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those
judgments
of values, "Good" and "Evil"?
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Nietzsche - v13 - Genealogy of Morals |
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mē wīge belūc
wrāðum
fēondum (_protect me against mine enemies_), Ps.
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Beowulf |
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Đề điệu: viên quan đứng đầu chịu trách nhiệm toàn bộ công việc của
trường
thi.
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stella-01 |
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Should one
intervene
at all?
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Foucault-Psychiatric-Power-1973-74 |
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But if she
develops
the mind bent on enlightenment, to be a woman is better.
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Tarthang-Tulku-Mother-of-Knowledge-The-Enlightenment-of-Yeshe-Tsogyal |
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We have an excellent picture of
the
ambitious
novice in the person of Kastrill in _The Alchemist_.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Sudden and passionate flushes of color tinted the pine woods and
were gone; and beneath the
branches
and across the paths, fairy
lights played for a moment and passed away.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v23 - Sha to Sta |
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"
There is an
inevitable
change in his nature.
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The Letters of Abelard and Heloise - 1st Letter |
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Cernis nt ira, libido, scelus, dominentur ubique,
Fraus et
amicitiam
simulans, livorque malignus,
Jurgiaque, insidiai^que, et iniqua e retia legis.
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Latin - Bradley - Key to Exercises in Latin Prosody and Versification |
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Let
her marry Robert Martin, and she is safe, respectable, and happy for
ever; but if you
encourage
her to expect to marry greatly, and teach her
to be satisfied with nothing less than a man of consequence and large
fortune, she may be a parlour-boarder at Mrs.
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Austen - Emma |
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True
Such a
marriage
was worth an old song,
Heard in Heaven though, as plain as the New.
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Elizabeth Browning - 4 |
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The country saved from a cruel enemy,
Your hand securing the sceptre firmly,
The Moors defeated, before our alarms
Secured the orders to repulse their arms,
These are
exploits
that deny your King
The means of just reward for anything.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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BELLO: What else are you good for, an
impotent
thing like you?
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James Joyce - Ulysses |
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Heremon
O’Melaghlin
(of Meath), was slain by Mac Awley and the D'Altons.
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Four Masters - Annals of Ireland |
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A very ancient
tradition
has been given in the Irish Hymn or Metrical
Life of St.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v8 |
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Environments that lie in the remote past have a
different
weighting from recent ones, presumably lower, though not in any obvious way.
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Richard-Dawkins-Unweaving-the-Rainbow |
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Altas ondas que venez suz la mar
Deep waves that roll,
travelling
the sea,
That high winds, here and there, set free,
What news of my love do you bring to me?
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Troubador Verse |
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ita says that the
question
of the existence of an omniscient person is open to doubt, and cannot be conclusively proven either way.
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Buddhist-Omniscience |
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He pointed
out that forms and
ceremonies
were made for man, not man for forms and
ceremonies.
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Wilde - De Profundis |
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311 7he
Abridgment
ofEutyphron]
Naxus, heheldapieceofLandofus;oneDayha-
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Plato - 1701 - Works - a |
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The opening months of 1075 were
occupied
with preparations for the
reduction of Saxony.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v5 - Contest of Empire and the Papacy |
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But all the virtues are means and
uses; and, if we hinder their
tendency
to growth and expansion, we
both destroy them as virtues, and degrade them to that rankest
species of corruption reserved for the most noble organizations.
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Elizabeth Browning - 4 |
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First, as Rutter (1979) puts it, 'the links are much
stronger
looking back than they are looking forward'.
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Bowlby - Attachment |
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In 2001, the Project
Gutenberg
Literary
Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure
and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations.
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Stephen Crane |
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—the
foremost
free-thinker of Germany.
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Nietzsche - v17 - Ecce Homo |
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Whether a book is still in copyright varies from country to country, and we can't offer guidance on whether any
specific
use of any specific book is allowed.
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Aristotle - Nichomachaen Ethics - Commentary - v2 |
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Both authors were aware of the fact that social communication defines the present lor the actors (because it com- mits the actors to the premise of simultaneity) and
provides
in addition the chance lor a nontemporal extension 01 time.
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He accepted a passage to Sofala offered him by Pedro Barreto,
who had become viceroy of
Mozambique
in that year.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v06 - Cal to Chr |
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But in this case I also must remark,
'T was well this bird of promise did not perch,
Because the tackle of our shatter'd bark
Was not so safe for roosting as a church;
And had it been the dove from Noah's ark,
Returning
there from her successful search,
Which in their way that moment chanced to fall,
They would have eat her, olive-branch and all.
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Bryon - Don Juan |
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544
Thus
propitious
Nature grac'd my natal hour, with
indulgent care,
and gave the fiow'r, the sunshine, and the gale, with
superior sweetness.
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Carey - Practice English Prosody Exercises |
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One only, true to Hymen's flame,
Was traitress to her sire forsworn:
That splendid
falsehood
lights her name
Through times unborn.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Every family had some loss to grieve: among the women, some had to mourn the death of a brother, others that of a husband or a son; and many girls and boys, left as orphans, lamented that they were
bereaved
of their fathers.
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chungus |
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sauce |
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Diodorus Siculus - Historical Library |
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Men and women
crowding
fast in the streets--if they are not flashes and
specks, what are they?
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Whitman |
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That
rule contemplated an actual specific
valuation
of the lands
in each state granted and surveyed, with the buildings
and improvements.
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Hamilton - 1834 - Life on Hamilton - v2 |
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Between these two, she could want no possible
attendance
by
day or night.
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Austen - Persuasion |
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A space is created between them there,
Like a level pass between two hills
That the snowdrift's
whiteness
softly fills,
When the gusts of wind have dropped in winter.
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Ronsard |
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34* Videbar videre alios intrantes, alios verd
exeuntes
;
quosdam ex vino vacillantes, quasdam hesterna potatione
oscitantes, &c.
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Latin - Casserly - Complete System of Latin Prosody |
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All of these are
different
ways of examining the same phenomenon-all detail different aspects of Enlightenment.
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Kalu Rinpoche |
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The commentary on the Ndmasamgiti quotes an
Abhidharma
treatise which enumerates the six anuiayas: mdnadrgvicikitsdi ca rdgapratigh- amUdhayah.
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Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-3-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991-PDF-Search-Engine |
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At home, their public
buildings
and all the beauty of
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Demosthenese - First Philippic and the Olynthiacs |
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Go--look at each transaction,
Wars, revels, loves--do these bring men more ease
Than the mere
plodding
through each 'vulgar fraction'?
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Bryon - Don Juan |
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basket out window, avoid the
persecution
Aretas
And what wisdom and policy used from time time escape the malice enemies,
the Acts the apostles declare.
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Complete Collection of State Trials for Treason - v01 |
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However, it is not only the extensiveness of demands by which the social egoism of any social involvement endan- gers the freedom of its participants but indeed the relentlessness with which the
entirely
one-sided and narrow demand of already existing bonds likewise emerges.
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SIMMEL-Georg-Sociology-Inquiries-Into-the-Construction-of-Social-Forms-2vol |
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1), is
valuable
for such of the sources as concern French history.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v3 - Germany and the Western Empire |
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You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of
the Project
Gutenberg
License included with this eBook or online at
www.
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Wilde - Selected Poems |
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At the close
of the year 368, or at the
beginning
of 369, Sapor got possession of King
Arsaces, whom he put to death some years later.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v1 - Christian Roman Empire and Teutonic Kingdoms |
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Why
philosophers
are slanderers.
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Nietzsche - v14 - Will to Power - a |
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If
the
Congress
Ministries had not resigned, they could have fought
with the British Government from a position of strength.
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Cambridge History of India - v4 - Indian Empire |
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As a result, not only did he pay less attention to governing the state, but also when he went to sleep he was only with
difficulty
roused from his soporific state by being pierced with large needles, which was the only remaining way of reviving him from his unconscious torpor.
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Memnon - History of Heracleia |
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Such have I seen in painted semblance erst--
Winged Harpies,
snatching
food from Phineus' board,--
But these are wingless, black, and all their shape
The eye's abomination to behold.
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Aeschylus |
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Laugh away; I will put up with any mockery rather than
pretend that I am
satisfied
when I am hungry.
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Dostoevsky - White Nights and Other Stories |
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The greatness of
Christian
faith
lies in its inconceivable and manifold plasticity;
after thousands of years it will, in eternally new,
yet ever identical, forms, elevate humanity when
not even scientists will have anything to say of
Liberalism.
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Treitschke - 1914 - His Doctrine of German Destiny |
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And I remember hidden fires that burst
Suddenly from the midnight while men slept,
Long-smouldering rages in the darkness nursed
That to an instant
ravening
fury leapt,
And the old terror menacing evermore
A crumbling world with fiery molten core.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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